It's syslog-compatible: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jo

It's syslog-compatible: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jour... I'm not sure why they don't also write a text log. I guess it would mean giving up their nifty cryptographically-verified-authentic binary format. I may be wrong, I haven't booted up my fedora machine in a couple months.